berkeley db-4.0.14

[Roger Oberholtzer]

The only way it to ensure that the libdb.so has a version number, like libdb.so.4, keeping the libdb.so.2 file exactly where it is. The problem is
libso.so. It is a symlink to the actual file, If libdb.so.2 was made with a built-in version number, then apps should be OK. Otherwise, you will have problems. If all your apps that use libdb are currently wanting libdb,so,2, and you install libdb.so.4 as well, then all is OK. Changing the symlink of libdo.so to point to the new libdb 'should' only effect newly compiled programs. That is the theory. And you can always change it back as it is a symlink.

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 23:00:42 -0700
Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 01:30:32PM +0800, m.w.chang wrote:
> >
> >openlinux is using 2.7.7.
> >will there be detrimental effects if I upgrade it to 4.0.14?
> 
> Very likely you will end up shooting yourself in the foot big time.
> Perhaps not as badly as you wood with OpenLinux 2.3 where the Berkeley
> database routines were in glibc, but there are still a ton of programs
> that use these routines which are quite likely to get severe heartburn
> (not the least of which is rpm).
> 
> I would be very careful doing anything before digging into the
> documentation to be sure that I understand what trouble I might be getting
> myself into by upgrading.
> 
> Bill
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